Mar 29, 2012 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: March 29, 2012 The biggest handicap for Hong Kong’s democracy movement has always been its lack of precedents and institutional memories. Before 1997, the colonial governing tradition was all about keeping democracy at bay and the tradition...
Mar 21, 2012 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: March 21, 2012 For the first time ever, politics among the power-brokers here is fun to watch, probably because lots more people are getting into the act than the small circle of 1,200 electors who will vote on March 25. This is thanks not only...
Mar 1, 2012 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: March 1, 2012 During the past 20 years, local democracy activists have used every argument they could think of to make the case for “genuine” universal suffrage elections. In response, people liked to joke that Beijing would never allow...
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